Cloning Raid 1 to Raid 0: RAID 0 Logical Drive not recognised

[Kimik]

Hello,

On a DL380G4 with Smartarray 6i, I have a master OS image on a Raid 1 array, that I have cloned using ghost to 4x RAID 0 drives in the spare slots. However when I put any of the RAID 0 drives into another DL380G4, the Smart Array does not see the RAID 0 disk, and cannot boot. ACU does not recognise the RAID 0 LUN at all.

Is my understanding incorrect, I thought / presumed this was possible.

Appreciate any help to fasttrack the solution.

kimono

[James ~ Happy Dude · Accepted solution]

"I have cloned using ghost to 4x RAID 0 drives in the spare slots"

U mean to say u cloned it to drives already in a RAID (0) ??

Try breaking the RAID & trying on individual drives.

Cheers !

James.

[Kimik]

I have setup in ACU:

Logical Drive #1, RAID 1+0, 17.0GB
Logical Drive #2, RAID 0, 17.0GB
Logical Drive #3, RAID 0, 17.0GB
Logical Drive #4, RAID 0, 17.0GB
Logical Drive #5, RAID 0, 17.0GB


And wish to clone drive 1 to 2, 3, 4, 5 so I effectively end up with 4 clones of the operating system, that I can stick into other test servers and boot the image.

Sounds good in theory I thought :-)

[James ~ Happy Dude]

Yea... great thoughts mate !
I will eagerly wait to see if that really happens.
Image of RAID 1+0 to RAID 0 drives .... cant be ! Space ... Parity .. the whole setup seems something out of a STARTREK movie(too weird to be true)

but hats off if u get it working !!
(lets see if any our veterans have tried that !)
Cheers !

[Kimik]

Butter me crumpets, batman. But thanks for your advice. I thought Ghost would look after the differences, as it's seeing things at a logical layer. (ghost thinks its a drive to drive copy) Maybe I should ghost to file, the file to drive.

But I'm now using a tried and tested method of cloning:

1. shutdown server
2. yank one of the drives from the RAID1
3. power up, acknowledge logical drive degraded state, insert new 18GB drive to rebuilt
4. insert other half of RAID1 into new server
5. power up, acknowledge logical drive degraded state, insert new 18GB drive to rebuilt

A friend of mine came up with this one. It's Working like a charm !

thnx for your help.